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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

Nikolai Gogol

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.
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Existence People Space Spot World
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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Awe Blame Face
What is stronger in us – passion or habit? Or are all the violent impulses, all the whirl of our desires and turbulent passions, only the consequence of our ardent age, and is it only through youth that they seem deep and shattering?
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Deep Emotion Feeling Habit Ourselves Passion Strong Violence
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there isall the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.
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Clown Difference Emotion Laughter Lyrics Opinion Public
Don’t blame the mirror if your face is faulty.
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Blame Face Fault Mirror Mistake
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
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God Man Respect Thankful Worth
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
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Company Money People
How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners.
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Culture Manner Refine Savage
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
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Enough Fools Intelligence Man Stupidity
There are passions that it is not for man to choose.
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Choice Deep Inspirational Man Passion
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
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Profit Right
They don’t listen to me, they don’t hear me, they don’t see me.
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Listening Myself See
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
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Argument Greatness Smash
For contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
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Creation Judgment Pearl Photograph Recognition
The more debris there is the more it will show the governor’s activity.
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Activity Government
What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.
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Laughter Yourself

There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

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There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.

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